Saturday, May 21, 2011

Tech 101 | This is your Gannett director on video

Five members of the nine-seat board of directors are on the Digital Technology Committee, reflecting the heightened role of all things digital. They include CEO Craig Dubow, and Howard Elias, who is president and chief operating officer of EMC Information Infrastructure and Cloud Services. (Yup: cloud services.) It's part of the information storage giant EMC. Elias, who is 53, has been a GCI director since 2008.

Here, Elias plays host in a new training video that EMC posted online Tuesday; it's about as nerdy as corporate videos get. He's discussing the changing IT landscape, and "the need for new virtualization and cloud training and certifications." In a Zen-like moment at one point, Elias tells his audience: "The journey to the private cloud will be led by architects."

10 comments:

  1. Great to see our IT departments will now be located in India.

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  2. Watched the video and never once did the thought of the consumer come up. This is exactly what is wrong... Can I f-ing make a poster to S P E L L it out? The consumer is #1.

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  3. Wow! Over my head. All I want is to read the news.

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  4. Without a cloud, how else will you rain on someone's parade?

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  5. Been watching the poor local IT guys pulling their hair out already, as centralization takes away more and more of their abilities to take care of things at a local level. It must be happening at other sites too.

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  6. Howie! Nice reading in front of a tv. Did you learn from the robot-crypt Dubow? Fucking painful to think this board member cannot talk unaided for 3 minutes. PAINFUL!!,

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  7. When did "architect" become a verb?

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  8. 12:31am, Yes it's a royal pain in the #&$&. Create a ticket, wait a week. In the 10 years we had our local email servers, we never had an email problem. Almost weekly one or more corporate email servers are down. GPC, Wave2 and RTC have problems weekly or monthly. I can just image what it's going to be like when Newsgate is up and running.

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  9. I'm dumbfounded GCI has not jumped on server and desktop virtualization already. It would save $$$$.

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  10. 1:16am, they have. And look at what it's got you.

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